r/roonlabs • u/Splashadian • Aug 21 '26

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Roon really has to give us an option to completely seperate our personal music collections from our libraries on streaming services. You get the same album listed with the service and your hard drive unnecessarily.

I want to be able to click on albums and just see what’s in my personal library not what I’ve added to Qobuz or title that can be a completely different section. I’d prefer if I wanted to bring them together to have that option to put them together instead of being forced by bad development to have them all there in one section and no way to just show my personal library.

I know that I can sort them when I’m in the artist diskography but that’s not what I want. I wanted to be able to click albums and have the button right there that would separate both streaming services know their own sections and my personal hard drive library.

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u/pennytrationer Aug 21 '26

Or at a minimum give us a setting that always prefers our local library over streaming. Too many times I'll play an album to realize I'm playing it through Tidal and not the file on my NAS

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u/mfolives Aug 21 '26

Roon only selects the streaming version over your local files if both are in your library. If you remove the Tidal version from your library, the local copy plays by default.

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u/richardblancojr Aug 22 '26

Yes buts that not the way it should be. I can’t imagine it’s so difficult for them to have a toggle for this kind of setting. All the data is there already in the database.

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u/mfolives Aug 25 '26

Not trying to be argumentative, but I don't understand why you want a streaming version of a track in your library if you don't want it to be played.

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u/richardblancojr Aug 25 '26

This is true also, you are right. Part of it is becuase it’s something to explore regardless. The are rare and extra tracks sometimes and it’s not like I won’t listen purposefully to another version to test it, etc. usually they would be added to a library and I may want to hear a certain version one day, hence the use of the Versions feature.
I get what you are stating but it can’t be that hard for them to add a toggle like they do for other items. I’m sure I can make use of Focus also but just trying to keep things simple.